“It’s A Bloodbath”: US Companies Pillaging Latin America’s Tech Talent
https://restofworld.org/2022/latin-america-startup-developer-scarcity/?utm_campaign=Recruiting%20Brainfood&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletterREMOTE WORKING
Issue #277
30 Jan 2022
“Most developers see their path with startups as just another step in their career in order to get to Google or Facebook,” said Campos. “If someone is very money-driven, there’s nothing we can do.”
The shift to remote is simultaneously a (re)globalisation of the labour pool; but instead of relocating workers, it’s a relocation of the jobs, with implications for employers, economies, businesses and people on both sides of the exchange. This post casts a negative view - US employers playing the predatory role; a more generous analysis might that this could be seen as form remittance, with those extraordinary wages being earned and spent in local economies.